China designs dexterous wheeled robot concept to support lunar station
Engineers in China are exploring a new robotic system designed to operate as a versatile worker on the…
500,000-year-old elephant bone tool reveals advanced planning and skill in early human ancestors
The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for…
Manual dexterity and the human brain evolved together
A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor…